Strunk and White

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The relative clause must be moved forward, to read, "A proposal which has been variously judged, to amend the Sherman Act . . . ." Similarly


    The grandson of William            William Henry Harri-

Henry Harrison, who                son's grandson, Benjamin

                                   Harrison, who

― Josh, Saturday, 29 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

p. 30, 3rd edition

― Josh, Saturday, 29 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

yes

― Martin Skidmore, Saturday, 29 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

2. In a series of three or more terms with a single conjunction, use a comma after each term except the last.

Thus write,

red, white, and blue
gold, silver, or copper
He opened the letter, read it, and made a note of its contents.

This comma is often referred to as the "serial" comma. -- p.2, 4th ed.

― clive, Saturday, 29 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Fuck Strunk and White! Throw off the shackles of your anal grammarian oppressors! Join the glorious revolution! Deny attemped master narratives of "language"! Aid in the dissemination of multifarious lingual perspectives!

― Dan I., Saturday, 29 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, and DFW and his mom can suck my dick too yo.

― Dan I., Saturday, 29 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

This is my toilet book.

― nathalie, Saturday, 29 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My ass

― Queen G of the You talked about my essence with my mother?, Saturday, 29 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

But Dan makes his protest in grammatical English. Anyway, Strunk & White vs Fowler FITE!

― Martin Skidmore, Saturday, 29 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

there's a biog of fowler just out

white wrote charlotte's web

strunk invented marzipan

― mark s, Saturday, 29 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I still can't fathom why anyone except newspapers would use anything other than the Chicago Manual of Style.

― nabisco%%, Saturday, 29 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

That's a rubbish haiku Mark.

― Graham, Saturday, 29 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I haven't read the last 20 pages or so yet but aside from frequent snide superiority which is somewhat funny on its own, I think there is ONE JOKE in it: it's about freezing sperm donors instead of their sperm, due to a usage error.

haha nitsuh, I don't see why anyone uses ANY style guide.

― Josh, Saturday, 29 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Because then there would be no point of mocking me in AIM chats.

― nathalie, Saturday, 29 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

ha we don't need it written down in a book in order to mock your usage, nath

― Josh, Sunday, 30 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Well, Josh, at least it is my third language. What is Ethan's excuse?

― nathalie, Sunday, 30 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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